In relation to the previous post, my body has chosen to overrule my head and breed like a rabbit instead.
Baby number 4 has commenced its pre-natal journey.
I hope it's another girl.
Nuaim says he wants a baby brother. When I tell him he already has a brother, he answered that Nu'man is no longer a baby so he doesn't count.
Nu'man also wants a boy. "Sebab Nu'man boy."
Aiesyah, when asked whether she wants an adik, shakes her head and answers in her trademark bimboesque manner, "Tak nak".
Monday, 28 September 2009
Tuesday, 1 September 2009
To study or not to study
It's that time of year again. The call for postgraduate study scholarship nominations is out.
The last 90 minutes have been spent searching for suitable engineering & engineering management postgraduate programs in the UK. While I found a few that would have been attractive to me 5 years ago, I wonder if I still have the tenacity and the attention to detail to do something purely technical for 3 full years. Not to mention that it has to be 'aligned to the Company's Technology Agenda', in which my current work does not feature prominently at all.
I'm not sure whether it is something I really still want to do, or just a feeling that it's something I should've done before that features so prominently on my 'to do' list, like ganti puasa. Or it's something that I need to do because it's expected of me and I just can't bear the idea of people going "You should have" for the rest of my life.
Why can't I just be satisfied with staying at home to breed like a rabbit?
The last 90 minutes have been spent searching for suitable engineering & engineering management postgraduate programs in the UK. While I found a few that would have been attractive to me 5 years ago, I wonder if I still have the tenacity and the attention to detail to do something purely technical for 3 full years. Not to mention that it has to be 'aligned to the Company's Technology Agenda', in which my current work does not feature prominently at all.
I'm not sure whether it is something I really still want to do, or just a feeling that it's something I should've done before that features so prominently on my 'to do' list, like ganti puasa. Or it's something that I need to do because it's expected of me and I just can't bear the idea of people going "You should have" for the rest of my life.
Why can't I just be satisfied with staying at home to breed like a rabbit?
Monday, 31 August 2009
Back to Work
It's been a long time away from the KL office. I had to leave the plant for a family holiday before they completed the Turnaround. After 10 activity-filled days in Oz, I think I need a turnaround myself.
The new office layout takes some getting used to. Where before I had a lovely view of Dataran Merdeka and could see across my corner of the floor, now my old space is occupied by a meeting room, and I have 6-foot high partitions blocking me from everyone else except the secretary and maybe my Technical Coach. I was sitting there for a whole hour before I realised my immediate neighbour was AKL. Feels almost claustrophobic...
The new office layout takes some getting used to. Where before I had a lovely view of Dataran Merdeka and could see across my corner of the floor, now my old space is occupied by a meeting room, and I have 6-foot high partitions blocking me from everyone else except the secretary and maybe my Technical Coach. I was sitting there for a whole hour before I realised my immediate neighbour was AKL. Feels almost claustrophobic...
Monday, 20 July 2009
Yellow & Red chapter 1
He was shy. She knew he liked her, but he hardly ever said a word.
The actions spoke volumes though.
The actions spoke volumes though.
Sunday, 19 July 2009
Water Babies
Today has been a fun day for the kids. We arrived at Queensbay Mall in Penang in time for lunch, then after a couple of hours shopping for their winter clothing, Mama and Bapak decided to drop by at the Carnivall Water Theme Park in Sungai Petani. We didn't have our swimming costumes, so the little ones had to make do with their undies.
Aiesyah braving the water with her Tok Wan.
A rare photo of my eldest. Nuaim enjoyed it immensely.
My little princess making splashes of her own.
Aiesyah braving the water with her Tok Wan.
A rare photo of my eldest. Nuaim enjoyed it immensely.
My little princess making splashes of her own.
Saturday, 18 July 2009
Off Day
Hari ini saya tidak bekerja. Hari ini saya luangkan masa untuk keluarga dan anak2. Esok, lusa, tulat dan seterusnya lain cerita.
Lepas 13 haribulan boleh ambil cuti ganti ya, Bos?
Lepas 13 haribulan boleh ambil cuti ganti ya, Bos?
Thursday, 16 July 2009
Shaking things up a little
It's happening again.
A month ago I thought it was all over, but the curiosity reappeared in a different form. Maybe it's the setting and location. All the same, I don't know if I should welcome it.
I need a distraction. Like a nice sporty Peugeot 206 Coupe Cabriolet.
A month ago I thought it was all over, but the curiosity reappeared in a different form. Maybe it's the setting and location. All the same, I don't know if I should welcome it.
I need a distraction. Like a nice sporty Peugeot 206 Coupe Cabriolet.
Or an Audi TT Quattro .
For now I'll just have to settle with zooming up and down the 40km stretch of highway between Alor Setar and Gurun in a Chevrolet Optra 1.8 to release my angst, with Catatonia's 'Road Rage' blaring on full volume.
Apparently they've never had a female Instrument engineer here before. Maybe that's why the people I work with appear so quiet and timid, the young ones especially. My peer group don't really seem to care whether I'm there. Well, it's time for me and my dream sports car to change that.
For now I'll just have to settle with zooming up and down the 40km stretch of highway between Alor Setar and Gurun in a Chevrolet Optra 1.8 to release my angst, with Catatonia's 'Road Rage' blaring on full volume.
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It's been three days in Gurun, not counting the one-day trip last week. I don't know if I'm making friends or enemies.
Last week, the project team took me out for a nice lunch. On Monday, it was the bosses' treat. Yesterday I might have bruised and battered a few egos with my 'technical governance' approach that I was left all alone to fend for myself. Of course, it could just be my out-of-whack overly sensitive nature and they had simply forgotten I was there.
Today I had lunch with some guys and a lady from the Electrical dept. One of them is a colleague's brother, who also happened to be one of my student trainees a few years' back. Another one was a really funny guy who unabashedly offered me a place in his heart on a shift basis. Cute approach, but no thanks.
Apparently they've never had a female Instrument engineer here before. Maybe that's why the people I work with appear so quiet and timid, the young ones especially. My peer group don't really seem to care whether I'm there. Well, it's time for me and my dream sports car to change that.
